Uneasy Alchemy

Barbara L Allen

• Hardcover | Urban and Industrial Environments
• How coalitions of citizens and experts have been effective in promoting environmental justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor. Lees meer

Science and Environment in Chile

Javiera Barandiaran

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• The politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state acted as a "neutral broker" rather than protecting the ... Lees meer

Politics of Urban Runoff

Andrew Karvonen

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• A study of urban stormwater runoff that explores the relationships among nature, technology, and society in cities. When rain falls on the city, it cr... Lees meer

Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends?

Karen Chapple, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit. Cities and... Lees meer

Form and Flow

Kian Goh

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An examination of urban climate change response strategies and the resistance to them by grassroots activists and social movements. Cities around the ... Lees meer

Concrete and Clay

Matthew Gandy

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history and changing landscape of New York City. In this innovative account of the urbanization of n... Lees meer

Community-Driven Regulation

Dara O'Rourke

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• In Community-Driven Regulation Dara O'Rourke proposes a new policy model for pollution control, based on detailed case studies from rapidly industrial... Lees meer

Street Science

Jason Corburn

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• When environmental health problems arise in a community, policymakers must be able to reconcile the first-hand experience of local residents with reco... Lees meer

The Environmental Advantages of Cities

William B Meyer

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An analysis that offers evidence to challenge the widely held assumption that urbanization and environmental quality are necessarily at odds. Conventi... Lees meer

Labor and the Environmental Movement

Brian K. (Chair/ Professor of Sociology, State University of New

• Hardcover | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An analysis of cooperation between organized labor and the environmental movement based on examples of coalition building from around the United State... Lees meer

American Urban Form

Sam Bass Warner, Andrew Whittemore

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis. American Urban Form --the spaces, plac... Lees meer

Flint Fights Back

Benjamin J. (Assistant Professor, Kettering University) Pauli

• Hardcover | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An account of the Flint water crisis shows that Flint's struggle for safe and affordable water is part of a broader struggle for democracy. Lees meer

Blue and Green

Scott L Cummings

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port. In Blue an... Lees meer

Chemicals Without Harm

Ken Geiser

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• A proposal for a new chemicals strategy: that we work to develop safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals rather than focusing exclusively on control... Lees meer

Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union

• Hardcover | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An examination of the awareness of environmental and social justice issues in the former Soviet republics-from the Western-style democracies of the Ba... Lees meer

Constructing Green

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• Experts consider green construction and the social, institutional, and cultural changes associated with it, through a sociological and organizational ... Lees meer

The Code of the City

Eran Ben-Joseph

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• Standards and codes dictate virtually all aspects of urban development. The same standards for subdividing land, grading, laying streets and utilities... Lees meer

Rail and the City

Roxanne Warren

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An architect makes the case for rail transit as the critical infrastructure for a fluidly functioning and environmentally sustainable urban society. T... Lees meer

Greening the Ivory Tower

Sarah Hammond Creighton

• Paperback | Urban and Industrial Environments
• A practical guide to how the university can serve as a model of environmental stewardship. Lees meer

Recycling Class

Manisha Anantharaman

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India's discards... Lees meer

Changing Lanes

Joseph F C Dimento, Cliff Ellis

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban tran... Lees meer

Resigned Activism

Anna Lora-Wainwright

• Hardcover | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response. Lees meer

In the Images of Development

Tridib Banerjee

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• The urban legacy of the Global South since the colonial era and how sustainable development and environmental and social justice can be achieved. Rema... Lees meer

Owning the Street

Amelia Thorpe

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• How local, specific, and personal understandings about belonging, ownership, and agency intersect with law to shape the city. In Owning the Street , A... Lees meer